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Advancement in technology has brought new challenges and opportunities for the international community and our quest for peace & security, especially as we face the rise of non-state actors. Please join us for a panel discussion on the intersection between digital technology, human rights and international security in the 21st century, featuring Ramzi Jaber, Timothy Quinn, Jake Hirsch-Allen, and Dr. Taylor Owen, with Grant McDonald as the moderator. There will be an opportunity for Q/A with the audience following the presentations and tickets are available for free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Brought to you by the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (www.ccr2p.org)

Co-sponsored by the International Relations Society at U of T, Canadian-Arab Institute, Hart House Debates Committee, and CIC's OpenCanada.org

Jake Hirsch-Allen is a former startup and intellectual property lawyer who is currently a partner at Functional Imperative, a digital innovation and software development company. Hirsch-Allen also recently founded Lighthouse Labs. In addition, he is a senior manager at Incentives for Global Health, the non-profit proposing the Health Impact Fund. He also works part-time as Director of Business Development for the Multiplicity Accelerator and Cobalt Counsel, and advises a number of high-tech startups. Aside from his his current positions, Hirsch-Allen has significant experience in the private and public sectors in Canada and abroad including clerking for the Supreme Court of Israel, interning at Human Rights Watch and on Radovan Karadzic and Ieng Thirith’s defense teams at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).

Dr. Taylor Owen:

Taylor Owen is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School and the founder and Editor of OpenCanada.org. He was previously the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, and has held research positions at Yale University, The London School of Economics and The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo where his work focuses on the intersection between information technology and international affairs. His Doctorate is from the University of Oxford where he was a Trudeau Scholar. He has held Banting Postdoctoral and Action Canada Fellowships and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Dr. Owen is also an author of several notable books.

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Grant McDonald is a professional journalist and journalism trainer working with the Canadian-based media development organisation Journalist for Human Rights (JHR). Grant helped launch and lead JHR’s latest program in South Sudan; a program which has seen great success in its first year. While in South Sudan, Grant also works as an International Correspondent for Radio France International. Prior to his work overseas he was a News Anchor and Reporter for Talk Radio AM640 in Toronto. Prior to his work in South Sudan, Grant lived and worked in Liberia with JHR and witnessed firsthand the lasting impact of the organisations’ work. Grant is an alumni of Ryerson University where he received a Bachelor of Journalism degree.